Man resists arrest on Cross Campus

It took police more than half an hour to take Xavier Bolden of Hamden, Conn. into custody. Photo by Charlie Croom. (Senior Photographer).

By Charlie Croom, Harrison Korn

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

UPDATED: 12:46 p.m. A man claiming to be a Yale student looking for a wife caused a commotion on Cross Campus near the steps of Sterling Memorial Library late Tuesday morning.

Photo by Charlie Croom

Xavier Bolden, who was arrested on Cross Campus on Tuesday, shouted to surprised onlookers, “I go to this school, get your f--ing hands off me.”

Both New Haven Police Department and Yale Police Department officers responded at around 11:15 a.m. and began to try to remove the man, who was heard yelling, "I go to this school, get your f--king hands off me."

According to one officer, the man had been harassing students inside Commons. When he was approached by the police he fought with them and then attempted to flee the scene.

The officers struggled to get the man in a police vehicle without hurting him. The man begged to be tasered by the police and to be physically harmed.

"Break my arm please, break my arm please. I'm about to get paid, I'm about to get paid," he sang.

At one point he said he was "schizophrenic/bipolar" and asked people to call an ambulance so he could go to a hospital.

In instances when he was not yelling at the police, he rapped about his large genitalia.

The police handcuffed the man's wrists and ankles and belted his legs together before wrestling him into the van.

It took more than a dozen officers and over a half an hour to get him inside a police vehicle.

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ROFLCOPTER 1 year, 3 months ago

there was a beer right next to him...just sayin

FreddyHoneychurch 1 year, 3 months ago

Herc takes down Omar.

joey00 1 year, 3 months ago

Are you sure he's not residing in a Dwight St. University Property abode ? He might as well go there, not much diff in behavior from let's say , oingo boingo night

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Man resists arrest on Cross Campus